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After the Show (1959)
Character: Davy
Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal mistress.She's a young, bohemian type and Victor is smitten. She leads him on and he takes her out, but after meeting her friends, realises she's not for him.
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The Bass Player and the Blonde (1977)
Character: Pianist
George Mangham is a former composer and bass player in a band struggling for money. Stuck in an engagement with Mrs Merino, a wealthy older woman, while on the run and owing money to gangsters who are after him for debts he owes them, life is not great for George. But it gets even more complicated when he literally bumps into Terry Weston, daughter of gangster Charlie Weston, who has run away from home with her marriage to the rich but nerdy Nigel only a few days away. Little do either realize just what trouble and turmoil lays ahead for both of them...
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The Last Chance (1937)
Character: Michael Worrall
Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gun-running expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced; he returns at Christmas to find himself accused of the murder of Ivor Connel, a moneylender. Mary's father had always hoped that his daughter would marry John Worrall, a rising barrister. Worrall is briefed for the defence, but when he loses the case and Alan is condemned to penal servitude for life, no one but the judge realises that he has not made use of the best piece of defence evidence...
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Oh, Boy! (1938)
Character: Conductor
A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...
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Spring Handicap (1937)
Character: Len Redpath
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
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Once in a Million (1936)
Character: Prince
Fantasy of a bank clerk who accepts a deposit of a million too late to put it in the bank and has to guard it over the weekend.
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Bull Rushes (1931)
Character: N/A
'Spain. English tourist gets drunk and fights bull.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Who Was Maddox? (1964)
Character: Chandler
A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.
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The Set Up (1963)
Character: Simpson
Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.
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The Man from Chicago (1930)
Character: Barry Larwood
'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)
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No Exit (1936)
Character: Billy West
A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
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Music Hath Charms (1936)
Character: Jack Lawton
This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.
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Saturday Night Revue (1937)
Character: Jimmy Hanson
There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not approve of her singing career, believes she is performing at the Society one...
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The Patriot Game (1969)
Character: Pianist
Dominic Behan's play concerning the IRA’s bombing campaign in London in 1939
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Compensation Alice (1967)
Character: Man in Car Park
Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.
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Thank You Very Much (1971)
Character: The Boss
A social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as the public face of charities would help make them seem more appealing to donors.
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Someone at the Door (1936)
Character: Ronnie Martin
When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally will 'disappear', and he will be arrested for her murder! At his trial she will reappear, his acquittal will follow, and he will be able to supply his paper with an exclusive story. Sally and her fiance, Bill, fall in with the scheme. However, there are complications which they had not foreseen.
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The Great Gay Road (1931)
Character: Rodney
'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)
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Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)
Character: Landlord
Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a national invitational, Herman and his friends find work in a pop group, and Herman falls in love.
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The Dominant Sex (1937)
Character: Alec Winstone
A mature comedy based on the hit stage play in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test!
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Aren't Men Beasts! (1937)
Character: Thomas Holly
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
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A Star Fell from Heaven (1936)
Character: Douglas Lincoln
In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star. Unfortunately he soon encounters unanticipated problems. He is especially concerned about his girl friend who dumped him in favor of the voiceless star.
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Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
Character: Henry
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
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Sweet William (1980)
Character: N/A
William is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naïve Ann, but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
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Yes, Madam? (1938)
Character: Tony Tolliver
The hilarious tale of two cousins who must complete a period in domestic service in order to receive an inheritance.
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The Key Man (1957)
Character: French Waiter
The host of a radio crime show finds himself mixed up with real gangsters after he re-creates a notorious murder on the air. He uses his knowledge of criminology to foil the gang's wicked scheme.
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Three Men in a Boat (1933)
Character: Jimmy
An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames.
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Playback (1962)
Character: Second Drunk
A young policeman becomes involved with a glamorous German woman in London, to his cost.
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Aunt Sally (1934)
Character: Billy
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
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